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| <title>Publishing Web services and business entities</title> |
| <titlealts> |
| <searchtitle>Publishing Web services and business entities with the Web Services |
| Explorer</searchtitle> |
| </titlealts> |
| <shortdesc>Through UDDI and WSIL, other applications can discover WSDL documents |
| and bind with them to execute transactions or perform other business processes. </shortdesc> |
| <prolog><metadata> |
| <keywords><indexterm>Web Services<indexterm>publishing<indexterm>overview</indexterm></indexterm></indexterm> |
| <indexterm>business entities<indexterm>publishing</indexterm></indexterm> |
| <indexterm>Web Services Explorer<indexterm>publishing Web services</indexterm></indexterm> |
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| </metadata></prolog> |
| <taskbody> |
| <context><p>UDDI enables the discovery of Web services by providing a distributed |
| registry of businesses and their service descriptions, implemented in a common |
| XML format. In order for a service requestor to discover a service, |
| a service provider must first publish a business entity and at least one business |
| service, and service interface in a UDDI registry. The Web Services |
| Explorer is a Web application that supports the publication, discovery, and |
| maintenance of business entities, business services, and service interfaces.</p><p>WSIL |
| enables the discovery of Web services by defining a distributed service discovery |
| method that supplies references to service descriptions at the service provider's |
| point-of-offering, by specifying how to inspect a Web site for available Web |
| services. The WSIL specification defines the locations on a Web site |
| where you can look for Web service descriptions. Since WSIL focuses on |
| distributed service discovery, the WSIL specification complements UDDI by |
| facilitating the discovery of services that are available on Web sites that |
| may not be listed yet in a UDDI registry. The Web Services Explorer allows |
| you to generate and explore WSIL documents.</p><p>The favorites page of the |
| Web Services Explorer allows you to store the location of UDDI registries, |
| business entities, Web services, service interfaces, as well as WSIL and WSDL |
| documents.</p><p>Use the Web Services Explorer to do any of the following |
| tasks:</p><ul> |
| <li> <xref href="taddreg.dita">Add a registry to the Web Services Explorer</xref> </li> |
| <li> <xref href="tbkmrk.dita">Adding a registry, business entity, business |
| service, service interface, WSIL, or WSDL service to Favorites</xref> </li> |
| <li><xref href="tlogexp.dita"></xref></li> |
| <li> <xref href="tdiscov.dita">Discover a Web service</xref> </li> |
| <li> <xref href="tpubent.dita">Publish a business entity to a registry</xref> </li> |
| <li> <xref href="tpublish.dita">Publish a business service to a registry</xref> </li> |
| <li> <xref href="tunpub.dita">Remove a business entity, business service, |
| or service interface from a registry</xref> </li> |
| <li> <xref href="tupdate.dita">Update a business entity, business service, |
| or service interface</xref> </li> |
| <li> <xref href="tbusproj.dita">Manage referenced services</xref> </li> |
| <li> <xref href="tassert.dita">Manage publisher assertions</xref> </li> |
| </ul><p>Prerequisites:</p></context> |
| <steps> |
| <step><cmd>Before you can use the Web Services Explorer to perform any of |
| these functions, you must <xref href="treg.dita">register with a public registry</xref>. |
| There are many different registries with which you can register.</cmd><info></info> |
| </step> |
| <step><cmd>Ensure that you are using a supported Web browser.</cmd><info>The |
| following Web browsers and versions are supported:<ul> |
| <li>Internet Explorer: 6.0 and up</li> |
| <li>Mozilla: 1.2.1 and up</li> |
| </ul></info></step> |
| <step><cmd> <xref href="tstrtexp.dita">Launch the Web Services Explorer</xref>.</cmd> |
| </step> |
| </steps> |
| <result><p><b>Known limitations of the Web Services Explorer:</b><ul> |
| <li>The taxonomy categories in the Web Services Explorer are not translated |
| since they must match those in the standards adhered to by UDDI (ISO, UNSPSC |
| 7.3, NAICS).</li> |
| <li>The Web Services Explorer will launch without the browser toolbar which |
| shows, amongst other things, the URL to the Web application. This URL should |
| only be used by users with accessibility needs. The URL to the Web Services |
| Explorer Web application can be obtained through the following steps:<ol> |
| <li>From the Window menu, select Preferences.</li> |
| <li>In the Preferences dialog, select <uicontrol>Web Browser</uicontrol> in |
| the left pane.</li> |
| <li>On the right, select <uicontrol>Use external Web Browser</uicontrol>.</li> |
| <li>In the <uicontrol>Location: text</uicontrol> field, browse or type in |
| the full path of the Internet Explorer executable. (for example, C:\Program |
| Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe).</li> |
| <li>Click <uicontrol>Apply</uicontrol> followed by <uicontrol>OK</uicontrol>.</li> |
| </ol> Note that this preference will now apply to any browser windows that |
| are launched by the user or by the tools themselves (such as the Universal |
| Test Client). The Web Services Explorer will now launch in an external browser |
| and its URL should be in the Address field. This can then be pasted or opened |
| using am accessibility assisting browser.</li> |
| <li>When performing an advanced find or publish in the UDDI page of the Web |
| Services Explorer, the items in the drop down list for picking a language |
| in conjunction with a name or description is sorted according to the operating |
| system's locale settings. On <tm tmclass="special" tmowner="Microsoft Corporation" |
| tmtype="reg" trademark="Windows">Windows</tm>, this order may be managed through |
| the Control Panel. To do this:<ol> |
| <li>Open the Control Panel.</li> |
| <li>Launch the Regional Options control panel applet.</li> |
| <li>In the General tab of the resulting dialog, there may be a "Sorting order" |
| drop-down list. If so, pick a sorting order and then click <uicontrol>Apply</uicontrol> followed |
| by <uicontrol>OK</uicontrol>.</li> |
| <li>In the Web Services Explorer, the new sorting order comes into effect |
| once the page reloads. This can be accomplished by pressing the back arrow |
| followed by the forward arrow in the main toolbar.</li> |
| </ol>Note: The instructions above apply to <tm tmclass="special" tmowner="Microsoft Corporation" |
| tmtype="reg" trademark="Windows">Windows</tm> 2000. On <tm tmclass="special" |
| tmowner="Microsoft Corporation" tmtype="reg" trademark="Windows">Windows</tm> XP, |
| the tab mentioned in step 3 is called "Regional Options". Beside the language |
| drop-down, there is a <uicontrol>Customize</uicontrol> button. When this is |
| clicked, a new dialog appears. A sorting tab will allow users to pick the |
| sorting method if applicable.</li> |
| </ul></p></result> |
| </taskbody> |
| <related-links> |
| <linklist><title>Related Concepts</title> |
| <link href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/concepts/cwsinwsa.dita" scope="peer"> |
| <linktext> Tools for Web services development</linktext></link> |
| <link href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/concepts/cws.dita" scope="peer"> |
| <linktext>Web services development</linktext></link> |
| <link href="../concepts/cuddi.dita"></link> |
| </linklist> |
| <linklist><title>Related Tasks</title> |
| <link href="tuddiexp.dita"></link> |
| <link href="tstrtexp.dita"></link> |
| <link href="twsdlexp.dita"></link> |
| <link href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/tasks/toverws.dita" scope="peer"> |
| <linktext> Developing Web services</linktext></link> |
| </linklist> |
| <linklist><title>Related Reference</title> |
| <link href="../ref/ruddi.dita"></link> |
| </linklist> |
| </related-links> |
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